[HN Gopher] One Million Screenshots
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One Million Screenshots
Author : gaws
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-08-10 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (onemillionscreenshots.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (onemillionscreenshots.com)
| LorenDB wrote:
| Cloudflare Family DNS seems to be blocking this site.
| dathery wrote:
| This is a neat visualization. It makes me want to build something
| like this with actual screenshots (scraping from places like old
| forums, image hosting sites, etc.) rather than web page
| renderings.
|
| One of my most prized possessions is my collection of personal
| screenshots -- I've managed to save basically every screenshot
| I've taken over the past ~20 years. It's very nostalgic to put
| them on shuffle and see how my desktop has changed over time,
| remember what random thing I was working on, etc.
|
| Could be cool to extend the concept beyond one user.
| mockingloris wrote:
| I screenshot all new sites I visit. A UI interaction catches my
| attention, I screenshot. My files system is 60% images. It's an
| habit.
|
| As a self-taught software dev; it helped me hone good design
| skills and also off topic - I poke around a lot when I visit
| certain websites to see which technologies they are built with.
| Maybe it was me testing js scripts or verifying the API/Object
| properties of certain functions - the habit stuck haha.
|
| Dey well
| keysdev wrote:
| Seems like a lot bootstrap like templat sites.
|
| Not a lot melonking sites.
| game_the0ry wrote:
| Sometimes simple UI gets the job done well enough.
| mariocesar wrote:
| Every website looks so similar in design to one another that it
| feels eerie
| r33b33 wrote:
| Meh... [big number] + [thing] meta seems overplayed by now
| doctorhandshake wrote:
| One of my art axioms: one thing is boring; one thousand of that
| thing is an installation
| dylan604 wrote:
| axioms of large numbers. steal one person's money, go to
| jail. steal a lot of people's money, you're a bank. or some
| such.
| mockingloris wrote:
| Someone might use this in a Ted Talk!
|
| My younger bro makes music, my older bro (a dev like me)
| critiqued his new vocal track just this evening. I said it's
| fire; he called it cliche. We exchanged looks, and my younger
| bro quipped, "Perspective is all it's about." We laughed.
|
| As they say, _One man's trash..._
|
| Dey well
| mariocesar wrote:
| Clicking on the website to view the details appears to be broken
| Unearned5161 wrote:
| I like the ones that are greyed out because they have some
| infernal popup about to appear
| wewewedxfgdf wrote:
| Why is this so fast
| Zealotux wrote:
| It's pretty clever optimization, it actually only shows a few
| dozens images at all times and only update the groups as you
| zoom in, for example
| https://tiles.onemillionscreenshots.com/2024-05-01/tiles/-1/...
|
| You don't even need something fancy like WebGPU/WebGL, just the
| CSS transition property will do the job there.
| pan69 wrote:
| I assume that they are using some form of mipmapping, a
| technique by which you have several images at different sizes
| to represent different levels of detail. It is used a lot in 3D
| environments.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap
| latchkey wrote:
| I asked them to add my site and got spammed with some service
| they offer.
| hn-user-42 wrote:
| zoomed out image looks interesting
|
| https://i.postimg.cc/SK0CMnPt/ss.png
| dylan604 wrote:
| Something is weird with some of the gray areas where it'll say
| "this screenshot appears broken", but I thought it was just my
| machine. Your image looks very similar in the the broken in the
| same pattern. So I guess it wasn't just my connection and
| caching issues.
| blendaddict wrote:
| Wow, I'm impressed. This is a really cool tool to get some
| inspiration as web dev. Although I have to say it's a bit scary
| how similar all the websites look nowadays...
| starchild3001 wrote:
| Glad to see "dead internet theory" not holding up!
|
| PS: As someone who worked on internet search, I can assure you
| that at least half of most popular web pages change in about 6
| months time. And the change is in no way something that can be
| done by bots.
| Fade_Dance wrote:
| Very cool. Would be interesting for a more niche filter criteria,
| since you aren't exactly finding many hidden gems in the top
| million mostly corporate sites. Maybe AI could provide that
| filter (top 1 million "niche" sites, or smaller sites that have
| been around since the late 90s).
| karpour wrote:
| This really makes clear how boring web design has become. 99% of
| websites use the same standard layout, there's almost nothing
| distinct or exciting about any of the designs. I remember web
| design being an art form, with books being printed with the best
| designs... I'd visit brand websites just to look at the design
| itself, even if I wasn't interested in what they were selling.
|
| Of course not all is bad, but I'd love to see some creativity
| again, it seems like almost no one dares to break the norm
| anymore.
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